Love Nopoli

So with the calling thing I will worry where I will go, but I will probably call around noon. I am sorry but I can not do it any other way it is really hard to work with our church times and appointments. So I will call you around 12 actually 12 on the dot but don’t worry about not confirming this with me because I will also call Saturday morning around the same time to confirm. So don’t freak out! My companion and I have to do stuff on Sunday, so I will work around it. We might use Skype we might not.... just don’t worry about it and be home on Saturday in the hours of 10 to about 2. We will talk then.

Please forget this ( I need my pin number for my debit card) so please get that before I talk to you.

I do not remember if I sent you the email last week about the Pasqua party in Battipaglia... if you didn’t, we found out that the DeMartinos father had a heart attack and is not doing very well... so if you could express our love to them like you do to everyone it would be much appreciated, he is a great man and I hope that you will get to meet him some day.

Lexi Brynn Miller, why is she sick? I don’t like to hear that - it’s not very good. I hope she gets better quickly, tell her I love her and to get better soon.

Kaitlyn I am glad to here that your Braces are off! I bet you look so beautiful! I am sure that you are as happy as I was when I got them off. But a more important note for you is, WEAR your retainer! I am a dingus and totally never wore mine. So word of the wise, wear it.

We had a good week, not as good as I would like. We met a lot of people on the street and talked to them. We would ask them if they would like to stop smoking. It is a good conversation starter. We handed off one of our star investigators to Potzuolli this week and it was hard. This investigator is awesome and hopefully we can still talk with him and keep in contact with him, he likes the church a lot and he researches a lot too, it is good and a bad thing. We like it when someone is doing something with their research instead of doing nothing though. The work right now is on fire, we are trying to do our best everyday and that’s what matters to me the most. I am so excited because this week we had some crazy good talks in church. One was by President Lord and he just gave the best invitation to our members. He is awesome! We also decided this week that we are going to start working with our members a lot more and try to do more member work. We have been doing a lot of finding and we have had a bit of a dry spell here to. We will hopefully have a little more success with the members, and if not I know that we can strengthen them. We had a bit of a bad thing happen this week too, wow yah it was hard for me to keep listening. We had a member come with us to this store that our family of ten works at. The reason we brought her is because she has a lot of similarities to our investigator. Her husband died, she has two kids, and loves to speak Napolitano. But she kind of just froze up and had no idea what to say. We went in and we said something along the lines of, this is our friend and we wanted you to meet her she has had a similar experience that you have had. So our investigator looked at her and said ok, tell me and the exact translation that our member said is my husband dead, widow. Then our investigator was confused and asked her to repeat what she said... so she did she said the exact same words. Then our investigator asked how have you been handling it. Our member looked at her and said I changed religions. Lets just say it wasn’t the response our investigator was looking for, but we will see them again tonight and we will hopefully be able to better that and be guided by the spirit... I will tell you more about it on Sunday

MOM I hope you had a spectacular birthday but I am dreadfully sorry that Kaitlyn didn’t make you brownies and you are right I will let her have it when I talk to her.

As for my dads emails. I LOVE NAPOLI! I wonder if it is possible to stay in your second city your whole mission! If it has not been done I would like to be the first. But I am assuming it won’t happen. There is about a hundred members that come regularly and there about 500 inactive. That is another story for another day but it means we have a lot to work with.

Gypsies in Napoli yes there are literally thousands, and yes they steal money and other things so you need to be careful my companion had his wallet stolen when he was transferred. Same thing happened with a couple of other missionaries. But I have not had mine stolen so everything is ok. We also have a lot of people who are part of the Mickey Mouse Club in Napoli. There are three reasons in this city the fireworks are going off. 1. Is because it’s a holiday 2. The Napoli team has scored a goal. 3. Is because a member of the Mickey Mouse Club just got out of jail... and I have heard the third reason every now and again. But I have not had any bad experiences.

Thank you dad for keeping me caught up with news it is good to hear some things, I enjoy knowing what is happening around me. Thank you for keeping me up with the ward and the other missionaries who are out on there missions as well. I have no idea if bin Laden is dead or not. I find it unimportant since I am out here trying to save souls :)

Thank you family for everything you do and we will hear from you this Sunday...

Love you ciao

Anziano Miller

Pompii

I will not have that much time to write again because one I am in a hurry again and because I have to send a million pictures and recordings but the pictures that I sent are of Pompei and of my companion playing the drums... he plays the drums really well he plays for bands that TJ, Broc, Cache and I enjoy but I do not know how much other people like them. Anyways we are getting along great and we are doing some great work I enjoy working with him and I hope to help out this work in this area a little more... we ate a ton at Pasqua... and wow Pasqua is huge here compared to America people, people take the day off after Pasqua they like it so much and they do not believe in the Easter Bunny so it is really weird compared to what we normally have here at home. But I hope you all had a bouna Pasqua (good Easter) and that it was wonderful.



I HOPE MOM HAS A WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY wow I could not say all the good things she does for me and seeing that this next week is mothers day I hopefully can tell her happy mothers day on the phone and all that good stuff. YOU ALL TREAT HER NICE OR I WILL WALLOP YOU WHEN I GET HOME!!! Mom I recommend the lobster at Red Lobster but I also recommend not naming in front of young ones :).

I need to know if you all want to use skype or the phone. I will call Sunday on Mother’s Day or skype on Mothers Day, if you can. I don’t know what is easier for me because I do not think this internet place is open on Sundays but let me know....

This week we have seen new investigators, our house has a couple solid baptism dates and things are looking really nice for this zone in Napoli. I hope all goes well. My companion and I do not have a baptism date but we are working on it. All I know is this zone is on fire. We will hopefully have some nice success.

I am sorry to here about the trampoline. Man that is rough I was hoping to see one when I came home. Its also a bummer to here that Wilbert is still in the garage. It is really nice to see Taylors and Jakes face again! By the time I send him my next letter his papers should be in and he should be waiting to here were he is going. That would be amazing.... how is Taylor doing he has not sent me anything about how he is doing so I hopefully you can tell me...

So you are staining the chairs in our church, that is so cool I hope everything turns out well because then you can go to church and see the work you have done... just like grandmas bathroom..

Any who, I have got to go. I will talk to you next week sorry it was so short.

My question I have for all of you (you don’t have to answer it but think about it)
why is it in this world everyone thinks about, and worries about everything else except their personal salvation? And for those of us who know for ourselves or (whether it be one religion or the other) do we get as close to the line as possible.

Love you, and have a fantastic Birthday Mom
Anziano Miller

Trip to the American Base in Caserta

Hello Family,

This week is a crazy one and I cannot wait to see what is going to happen with some of our investigators and friends this week. Right now I am basically in America but I am NOT on the continent:)... I am currently on a US Base that is in Caserta. It has all sorts of American Food and things that are American like basketball courts, little children who speak English, big roads, really nice playgrounds...basically the things you see every day but it literally looks like America. It is really fun to be here, we are here to see a couple of the members play some basketball and then grab some beloved and oh so precious Taco Bell or Subway... and probably some peanut butter as well. We have a lot of stuff to do today but it is going to be a lot to do before we have to go back. Right now I am with Anziano McMullen and 2 other Anziani you do not know.

BUT ON A MORE IMPORTANT NOTE: Happy Birthday GRRANDPA

IF no one had any idea he is 95 and that is really spectacular he is a wonderful man and he is a definitely a man I look up to in my life!!!

OK, back to being serious. So this week we are talking to a wonderful family of ten who is very Catholic but everything is awesome with them. They love the Book of Mormon and it is only been a week.

Uh oh; I do not have very much time at all. I need to go and I will email you more. The army people are telling us to get off, so hopefully I can email again towards the end of the day. I will talk to you later. I hope everything is wonderful for all of you. Mom, email me through your email.... so I can organize it.... this inbox was a disaster zone.

This is my address to look on Google Earth: Via G.Jannelli 23, 80128 Napoli Italia

Love you; bye!

Now I am back in Italy again. I like Italy so I'm glad.

Anyways like I was saying this family is amazing we have another appointment with them tonight and we cannot wait to talk a little bit more on the restouzione with them. They are the coolest people. It was interesting how they met the missionaries.

So the sister of this mom, Rosaria, was telling her sister how great the missionaries were when she was with them. And a year ago Rosaria’s husband died, it is and was very hard for her. Anyways she tried to find the missionaries for a year after that, which was like three weeks ago (right before I came to Napoli). Anziano Cooper and Rowland were taking a picture in a bar and she asked the bar tender, ‘are these British people?’ And the bar tender said; “I think they are American.’ Anyways the Anziani heard them and said, ‘yah we are American.’ Rosaria then looked up and said, ‘my gosh! How I have been looking for you for over a year and I have not found you, but I know that it is you I am looking for. She then asked a question. She said ‘I lost my husband a year ago and I want to know if I will ever see him again. Will I see him again?) Anziano Cooper and Anziano Rowland said ‘yes and we would like to explain how.’ Now we are working with her and we see her every Wednesday. It is so cool! Her whole family is there and everyone wants to listen. Her sister’s son is there and he had read the Book of Mormon years past but he lost it when he was moving and did not know how to get another one. He is sooooo awesome. I can’t even explain how cool he is. He knows the Book of Mormon, he loves the words, the teaching, the stories...everything. He loves the restoration, plan of salvation, the story of Joseph Smith. He knows it’s true but he does not realize it yet. But they asked if they could come to church and we obviously said ‘yes’. We want them to come but they are way catholic so they cannot come for Easter or the week before Easter. The week after, they really want to come. And when I say they want to come, I am not exaggerating they are more excited to go to church, more then most members are in America. Anyways I see them tonight so we will see what they read in the Book of Mormon. We gave our four last week to their family, they wanted more but we ran out.

We are also working with this man name Bruno. He is also just an amazing guy. We are really excited about him because we really only started talking with him yesterday. We have been friends since I have been here. He was a potential and we asked if we could meet with him and talk with him a little bit. He was so excited we asked, he accepted the restoration and promised to read the Book of Mormon. He also wants to see what our religion is all about so we gave him lds.com. He is the first person who really wants to study it out, he is so fantastic wow! I can’t even tell you. I’ll tell you more about him next week.

We are going to climb Vesuvius next week but we are not sure. A little heads up, I am going to send you a package full of things from Italy. If you want something specific... then tell me next week I hope you enjoy what I will send you. I know dad will, Mom on the other hand, I have no idea. Kaitlyn is a bit easier, Lexi is facilisimo and Grandpa is hard too. Let me know if there is anything you want or I will send a bunch of stuff I have gotten from Italy. PS – I totally forgot my pin for my debit card from home, the one with a snowboarder on it. Please send me the pin, I am not going to use a whole lot of money from it but I went to the base today and I could not use it because I forgot it.

Anyways, I am going. I hope you have a wonderful week. Tell Julie and Kandalyn I got their letters and I will try to send them a response soon. I am just a loser and never have time to write them. I need to have a chill preparation day someday soon so I can do so.

Love you sooooo much. I hope you have a great week. Glad things are going better (I hope)

Love, Anziano Miller (beloved son, brother, friend and acquaintance)

Napolii

Heeyoh Daddio,

My companion is great and easy to get along with, he is a great guy and he works hard. He can use a little help with a couple of things which I am trying to help him with but he is awesome. I am really glad I have been fortunate with companions. My companion had a hard time letting his other companion go because he was going home which is not bad. He is a year and a half in so he is getting a little bit trunky if you have any advice to help him it would be nice. I am doing as much as I can to be a loving helpful companion.

In our house right now there is four of us. There is an Italian, an English man, and two Americans... my companion is from Florida and the English man is Elder McMullen he was in the MTC with me and he is amazing. I am so glad I am in the same house as him we get along really well.... infect all of our house is just filled with good people...with the exception of me:)

I did go to Pompeii and it was crazy! Dad your theory does work really well. We did not get a tour guide because I hate being treated like a tourist.... they get treated like crap in Italy. It was crazy, there was a whore house and some other crazy things, the dead people are pretty sweet. I am sure Pompeii was a pretty wicked city. I new before your sweet theory but your theory was way more complex and had facts all I knew was it was a wicked city... anyways it was awesome.

Just a little side note, I would never want to go there with you, but I would at the same time. It’s basically an old huge city and you would take so long at all of the stops. Everything there is so significant and old, you would really enjoy it. I know you would. All I can say about the city is wow.
I do not have my cord again but I will bring it with me next week. I will send home some of the photos
I will write my letter home now I will talk to you later

Love yah your son Anziano Miller

Mom, you will have to read a little more about my companion on dads email but yah he is great I knew him before I was companions with him. This week is pretty sweet we were transferred and we got a pizza first off. Naples is the coolest place ever. There is so many people you can meet, so many people who need you, so many people period... they have subways and trains. I take them everyday.... the city is just absolutely huge. The city is fine, I love the people they are probably the craziest people you will ever meet... but many and I mean many are looking for more happiness in there life. That’s why I am here because I have found it and I want to share it. There is a ton of work to do here in Napoli. It’s hard to find time to go and proselyte... which is a huge bummer because, as you can imagine, that is my favorite thing to do. Right now I am really getting a grip on how I can teach better... which I really need. I am not even good at teaching in English! I am getting much better. I love talking to people they always surprise me with what they have to say especially with religion. A lot of people who I have talked to in Napoli have the right idea but they do not want to change the way they live.
PS Carol.... just because you are basically my second mom doesn’t mean you can tell my biological mother that this city is sketchy!!! nah thank you for looking out for me.

There has not been a whole lot that has happened since I have been here... we have done a lot of running around... we have met with a few less actives, which is a new thing for me. There is a whole bunch of less actives in this area. There is 70 active and 430 that are less active. The reason being is that Napoli was once 2 branches. Then they made it a ward. Now members don’t want to go because it is too far away... but we are trying to help them... I don’t know if we can do it with just four of us but we will give it our best effort!

Mom I hope you are excited for your song because it is waiting at my house waiting for you... also thank Derek for the sweet advice... well thank dad and Derek but mostly Derek because dad forgot. MOM I have some ADVICE GO to Disney (world) land... I don’t want to hear your excuses. Just go... love your son
I saw Pompeii but I forgot my cord again,
Here are some questions I have
Who won the super bowl, which teams even played in the super bowl?
What is grandpa up to?
How is dads work?
Everyone thinks I have a pocket full of money because I am American and I am here for two years... I tell them I don’t and they don’t believe me... then they ask me what my dad does for work and I tell them nothing. Then they think that we are really rich just by sitting all the time. It’s nearly impossible to tell them that I do not have that much money.

.... Don’t make fun of my hair... I did it myself. I figure heck I am not trying to impress anyone and I look good enough without any hair anyways so why not just cut everything off :) so I did!

Ok mom this is what I am going to do with the pictures... I will get a 4 gig thumb drive and put everything on there after that I will send you the SD cards.... it will get there I promise... especially in Napoli. Then when it gets there I will erase the thumb drive and use it another time... ok

Anziano Miller
piazza carnaro 20
00141 ROMA (RM)

This is for packages... the reason I give you this is because it will get there... number one reason is because it is Rome and kind of Americanized... number two is because some one is always there.. When you send me things I have to sign for them... but I cant do that when I am not home.. if they come when I am not home, they come three more times and I am not home then they take it to a large storage home and I have to go get it and pay a lot of money... I don’t ever want to do that so send it to that address. I will get it a bit later but I will get it.

So for some advice this week I would like you all to try and be better with Sunday, we need to treat Sunday by not doing things you would do normally on any other day of the week I want you to ask yourself that question every time you are about to do something on Sunday... is this something that is more appropriate for a Saturday... anyways try to rephrase that I have to go

Love You Bye Anziano Miller

Paestum Temple

Castellamare

Conference

Salve!

Ok so I want to add conference... it was amazing. I was blind as a bat before the mission.... I really enjoyed President Monson's talk about temples. There were three in a row that I really enjoyed... mamma mia! When President Uchtdorf and then Elder Johnson and then Elder Bednar all spoke in a row... those were so powerful together especially with the trails as a family we were and are having.... I hope you look at those talks again. I know I will ... I do not know when it was because we watch all the sessions in a weird order... but I think it was Sunday morning.
Dad I really enjoyed president Uchtdorf's talk in priesthood it was amazing and I hope we can apply it more in our lives. Mom I am sorry I did not see your talk that you were talking about because we only were able to watch all of the talks except for the Sunday afternoon. So hopefully will be able to watch it soon or something... I don’t know if it I will be possible but I would like to read it...

Now here comes an invite from you son who loves you... and knows you try your best, and knows you are busy and knows that you will probably have an excuse when I ask. I would like to ask you to really take in what President Monson said and go to the temple, with a question and something you would like to ask to God... for example (what am I supposed to do in my life right now) what can I do to learn the most from this trail.... etc. I challenge you to go soon... as in the next month...this invitation is for mom and dad but for Kaitlyn to if it is possible. You do everything else and more to serve the lord and I know the lord wants to pour his blessings upon you and if you do this I am sure they will come with abundance.

Yes, I got my package which was fantastic geeeeeez I love Carol she is the bomb I am upset to hear she was crying already. I am surprised you have so many new friends from me going on a mission.... its weird because they are my friend’s moms. It’s kind of throws me off but I like it its really cool :) it should have happened sooner...
No I did not go to Pompeii. The reason being is because I am being transferred to Napoli and Pompeii is right next door so I will have another opportunity. I am excited it’s a beautiful big city, with some strange people but it is an amazing part of Italy there are many islands and things next to it too.
Anyway I sorry about my spelling its bad I know. But I have come to the conclusion that English is the most retarded language ever.... because of how everything is spelled. You have to just know the word you can’t even sound things out. I can read in Italian even if I don’t know what the word is. I am just glad I learned English as a child... Lexi be very grateful for the language you are learning right now.

I really did forget my camera cord it is not a lie I had been in Castellamare for 2 days it wasn’t like I was going to use my stupid camera cord.

Well now my companion is bored and does not want to watch me write any more. He is so dead :) dad might understand what I am saying when I say that... the meaning is weird because you are born and you are dead in the mission right now my companion is dead.. So when people are getting itchy to go home you say (Anziano Hansen) is so dead! ... He is not excited to go home either, but hopefully he had a good mission and will be able to see a few more miracles before he leaves.

Anyways I love you all! I hope to hear from you again next week.... Mom I will still see are friends and district conferences and stuff but not nearly as much. Rita is the one who wants the pie recipe... The last name is Cappucio or Barretta... that is a long story why and it’s not very important. Rita also gave me some Italian recipes.

Glad things are going well and glad to hear things with Roger went much better then they were sounding to be. Hope that he can find the same joy and happiness in his life as we have found in ours and if it not the same happiness, hopefully he can find a little more happiness. The situation was a bit strange to think about he is an interesting man and I hope that this trail has made you grow and learn (I am sure it has) thank you so much for your brief letter dad.

Giovanni is great he left to go find work north; he is truly elect he found work and asked us if we knew someone with housing. We asked the bishop in Rome and he said he has 2 apartments specifically for people who are working in Rome so he will pay 12 euro a day and he will be able to work in Rome and earn some money. This is very good for him because he will be in a strong ward with a loving and supportive bishop and most importantly he will be away from his girlfriend ;) but yes this is a good thing for him. I have seen much change in his life and more happiness, he believes in eternal families, and many other things. He calls the church when we are with him so he already considers himself part of the church

Thank you and remember I love you all. Anziano Miller

PS I would also like Matt Lund to take the advice of the Prophet Tomas S Monson and Elder Oaks and get married... I hope you can help him with that!